I have two 1TB WD drives. One I use solely as a Time Machine backup (1 year old) and this is working fine.
My other one I use as my day to day drive holding things ranging from films, music, & word documents/PDFs but mainly it is used for Logic Pro X sessions along with various sample packs and plug-ins - I keep them on here due to lack of space on my MacBook Pro 2013.
A couple of days ago I was downloading a large amount of zip files containing various sample packs which I purchased from ‘Samples from Mars’. Whilst downloading onto my Mac, I ran out of space and in a shortsighted decision decided to click the Store in iCloud option in my Storage Management, to save space. Little did i realise that this would remove every single document and file I have on my MacBook to the iCloud (where there wasn’t enough storage for it to complete anyway!) I reversed the decision however it hasn’t restored my MacBook files to where they were stored previously, instead creating a whole new folder ‘iCloud Drive’.
To avoid this happening again during the download, I plugged in my hard drive to try and move some things over such as photos, yet it did not appear on screen. I could hear the driver ticking in the hard drive but it sounded like it couldn’t get going. After several tries it eventually appeared on screen however after a short time, a faint ‘beep’ would sound from the hard drive and it would no longer be visible on my Mac. In the times when it was visible, when i tried to copy files over I would receive an error-36 message. Subsequently, when I tried to delete or move or even open any file on my hard drive I would receive this message.
Following this, when all was unplugged and all downloads stopped, I was running a small Logic Pro session and when I tried to save it locally it refused to do so, it would let me name the file what I wanted but when I clicked save it would do nothing and the session was still called ‘Untitled’.
Is this a hard drive problem, is this a macbook problem? Someone please help before I throw this piece of sh*t out the window.
I am reluctantly about to do a factory reset of the mac and restore my latest time machine backup (which typically was nearly 3 months ago, meaning that if this fails to rectify the problem then I will lose 3 months worth of work both on my MacBook and on my day to day hard drive).
